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- Islamists seize key Somali port
- MOGADISHU AFP — Islamist fighters wrested back control of Somalia's southern port of Kismayo on Friday following three days of bloody battles with a local militia that left at least 41 people dead, witnesses said. The retaking of the town by the Islamists came more than a year after...
- Research articles 2008-08-22
- Dozen killed in Islamist ambush in Algeria: reports
- ALGIERS AFP — Eleven members of Algeria's security forces and a civilian were killed in an ambush by armed Islamist groups in the east of the country, Algerian newspapers reported Tuesday. The attack, which took place Sunday in Skikda, was one of the deadliest in the past few weeks...
- Research articles 2008-08-19
- Lebanon protesters demand Islamist suspects be freed
- BEIRUT AFP — Relatives of suspected members of an Islamist group that battled the Lebanese army last year staged protests on Friday demanding their release from jail. Hundreds gathered inside Al-Omari mosque in central Beirut after weekly prayers in support of some 300 people arrested after more than three...
- Research articles 2008-08-15
- Jordan in secret talks with Hamas: Islamist
- AMMAN AFP — Jordan's intelligence chief Mohammed Dahabi and Hamas politburo member Mohammed Nazzal held secret talks in Amman last month, a leading Islamist said on Wednesday. "Dahabi and (Syria-based) Nazzal met for talks in Amman two weeks ago," Zaki Bani Rsheid, secretary general of the key opposition Islamic...
- Research articles 2008-08-06
- Turkish PM under pressure to reconcile
- ANKARA AFP — Turkey's prime minister came under increased pressure Thursday to reconcile with secularist opponents after his party narrowly escaped a ban over charges that it was seeking an Islamist regime. In an almost unanimous appeal, the press urged Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party...
- Research articles 2008-07-31
- Palestinian rivals clash in West Bank village
- RAMALLAH, West Bank AFP — Palestinian security forces stormed into a pro-Hamas West Bank village on Tuesday, sparking violent clashes as they pressed on with an arrest campaign against the Islamist movement. Witnesses said at least one person was shot and wounded and another arrested when forces loyal to...
- Research articles 2008-07-29
- Somali Islamist leader urges withdrawal of Ethiopian forces
- DJIBOUTI AFP — Somali Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Ahmed called for the withdrawal of Ethiopian forces in the war-riven country to boost efforts aimed at restoring stability. Ahmed, who spoke on Saturday at the end of a week-long gathering of the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia ARS --...
- Research articles 2008-07-27
- Thousands demonstrate against bid to ban ruling party
- ISTANBUL AFP — Thousands of people demonstrated noisily Saturday in Turkey's largest city against an attempt to have the ruling party legally outlawed. The constitutional court is to begin hearing submissions next month in the case brought by the country's chief prosecutor against the Justice and Development Party AKP...
- Research articles 2008-06-21
- Hamas tightens its grip a year after seizing Gaza
- GAZA CITY AFP — A year after Hamas's bloody seizure of power in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian enclave is sealed off and under siege, fuel is in short supply and poverty is rampant. But the Islamist movement remains defiant even as Israel prepares for a widescale assault while...
- Research articles 2008-06-13
- Lebanese singer performs in Bahrain despite Islamist opposition
- MANAMA AFP — Lebanese singer Haifa Wehbe, known for her sexy looks and revealing outfits, went ahead with a performance in Bahrain despite an attempt by the Islamist-dominated parliament to stop the show. "Haifa Wehbe was dressed modestly. She was almost veiled," Adel Surour, 37, who attended the Wednesday...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- Eight killed in air strike on Somalia Islamists: residents
- MOGADISHU, AFP — An air strike in central Somalia on Thursday, which insurgents blamed on the United States, killed at least eight people, including two top Islamists, a Somali rebel spokesman and residents said. The Somali government said one of dead Islamists was an Al-Qaeda nominated leader in the...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- Weekend death toll hits 47 in Mogadishu fighting
- MOGADISHU AFP — At least 29 people were killed Sunday in the heaviest clashes to rock Mogadishu in two months, bringing to 47 the death toll for two days of fighting between Ethiopian-backed Somali forces and Islamist insurgents. The worst violence hit the northern neighbourhood of Huriwaa, where fighting...
- Research articles 2008-04-20
- Britons, Kenyans among four killed in Somalia attack
- MOGADISHU AFP — Two British nationals and two Kenyans, all of them employed at an English school in a Somali town, were killed in an overnight raid by suspected Islamist insurgents, witnesses said Monday. According to witnesses and relatives in the town of Beledweyn, the four victims were a...
- Research articles 2008-04-14
- Britons, Kenyans killed in Somalia attack
- MOGADISHU, April 14, 2008 AFP — Suspected Islamist insurgents dragged two British nationals and two Kenyans out of their home in a Somali town and killed them, witnesses said Monday. The four victims were all from an English school in the town of Beledweyn. They were a British-Somali female...
- Research articles 2008-04-14
- Briton, two Kenyans among four killed in Somalia attack: witnesses
- MOGADISHU AFP — A British school teacher, her two female Kenyan colleagues and a Somali headmaster were killed in an overnight attack in central Somalia blamed on Islamist insurgents, witnesses said Monday. The four were killed when suspected rebels attacked and briefly took control of Beledweyne, the capital of...
- Research articles 2008-04-13
- Burundi peacekeeper dies as Mogadishu violence rages
- MOGADISHU AFP — A Burundian peacekeeper died of wounds sustained a day earlier in a suicide attack, while Islamist insurgents staged more operations Wednesday against foreign targets in the Somali capital. "We are sorry to announce that the soldier wounded in the suicide attack on Tuesday died of his...
- Research articles 2008-04-09
- Libya frees 90 Islamists close to Qaeda
- TRIPOLI AFP — Libya has freed 90 members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, an Islamist group that Al-Qaeda hailed as a new affiliate last November, the Kadhafi Foundation headed by the son of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi said on Tuesday. "The dialogue opened with leaders of the Libyan...
- Research articles 2008-04-08
- At least 19 killed in Somali fighting
- MOGADISHU AFP — At least 19 Somalis, including 15 soldiers were killed, and several wounded in separate clashes between Islamist insurgents and security forces, officials and witnesses said Thursday. The Islamist fighters attacked a military camp near in Addado town, 500 kilometres (310 miles) north of the capital Mogadishu,...
- Research articles 2008-04-03
- Somali elders say four civilians killed in US air raid
- MOGADISHU AFP — An Islamist-held town in Somalia came under attack Monday from what local elders identified as a US Air Force AC-130 gunship, leaving at least four civilians dead. Elder Abdullahi Sheikh Duale said the raid occurred in the early hours of Monday morning, and appeared to have...
- Research articles 2008-03-03
- Somali elders say four civilians killed by US bombs
- MOGADISHU AFP — US military planes bombed an Islamist-held town in Somalia near the Kenyan border overnight killing at least four civilians, local elders said Monday. "It was later in the night -- around 3.00 am -- when a US aircraft dropped three bombs into the Dhoble town. They...
- Research articles 2008-03-02
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